Whole Wheat Oatmeal Butterscotch Cookies

Finally, we can eat a guilt free Oatmeal Butterscotch Cookie. Made with real-food ingredients and homemade butterscotch chips, we don’t have to worry about hydrogenated oils or empty calories. These are so good for us, we could almost eat them for breakfast. Well, except that the butterscotch chips add extra sugar – which is maybe not the best way to begin our day. Shucks.

Ever since I saw the butterscotch chips recipe, I’ve been dreaming about making a rich butterscotch pudding – a while back, we had something like (called a budini, maybe?) at Mario Batali’s restaurant Mozza here in Los Angeles. My husband thought it was just divine. So THANK YOU for that recipe (and this one too – go for it for breakfast! it can’t be worse for you than toast with butter and jam, especially with fruit on the side).

I think these would be fine for breakfast. Course at our house the rule is you can have cake for breakfast the day after your birthday, so maybe my vote doesn’t count. Wish I had this recipe last week before my guy entered oatmeal cookies in the county fair, pretty sure they would have earned a purple ribbon!

I’m curious about them melting too? I’ve tried your chocolate chips in cookies but they melted so the cookie was just delicious goo. It appears from your pictures that they don’t affect the cookie much even if they do melt, and I’m sure you wouldn’t steer us wrong. They look incredibly delicious either way. I’d love to try the chips in your granola bars – my kids just devour those.

I’d say these butterscotch chips don’t melt down as badly as the homemade chocolate chips do, although they do melt somewhat. It kind of makes it seem like CANDY deliciousness in every bite of these cookies!! :)

With this post…and it’s “oatmeal cookies for breakfast” informal poll…you’ve officially become my favorite blogger! I vote yes, but I don’t have kids (if I did, I’d probably still vote yes) and I eat oatmeal for breakfast every morning…this would be like that, but with more butter and butterscotch chips added :)

I have been known to serve cookies (or cake, or pie) and milk for b’fast! We serve b’fast for dinner sometimes, why not dessert for b’fast?! Especially when we’ve made it with healthy ingredients. There, I justified it for you!

I think it would be an excellent breakfast treat. Sugary, yes…but still way better than 99% of the pastries and sugary cereal marketed for breakfast. Yum! We love love love your breakfast cake and the sausage pancake muffins, too

I was TOTALLY sitting on the couch last night craving oatmeal cookies. I can’t wait to try these tonite with the butterscotch twist. I might even add some golden raisons.

How about this: Skip the flour and baking soda and just make these as superfun oatmeal cereal? Then you could have them for breakfast – they just wouldn’t look like cookies. (I’m trying to help you out).

I have a batch of these in the oven RIGHT NOW! I don’t have coconut oil for the chips, so I used all butter and I probably should have cut back about 1-2 TBL because it took a bit to fully mix while making the chips and they do seem softer than I think they should be. They sort’ve disappeared when I folded them into the batter….a little, not bad. I don’t care though…they’ll be awesome anyway!!

hi Laura! I’m looking forward to trying these cookies!! They look delicious. :)
Sidenote: I know you shared a recipe for brownie bites but I can’t find the post again. I used the search box and looked under the “dessert” menu but can’t find them! I have a question about the consistency of the mix. (I’ve never made brownies from scratch before!!) Should it be fudge-like before I put them in the paper cups? I’m used to brownies from a box that are more runny before baking…

I don’t know. I can’t seem to get my head around the American breakfast cookies & muffins. Granted, I have come to realise that muffins in the U.S & muffins in Ireland/U.K are completely different things. Here they are very very sweet cakes, like cupcakes but with fruit in & I have made some of your muffins & they are more savoury than sweet. Those cookies are much healthier than boxed cereal I am sure but it still just feels wrong to have them for breakfast.

these cookies are fabulous. the chips did leak out at the edges of the cookies but the taste was still wonderful. for 1/2 the batch, i rolled the dough into balls and froze it. a few days later, i pulled them out of the freezer and cooked them according to the directions (i added no additional time as the first ones were a bit crispy). the freezing eliminated the chip “leakage.” they were perfect. not quite as flat and the chips were intact. from now on, i’ll freeze the dough before cooking.

Question . . .why melt the butter instead of using softened butter? Only asking because my cookies spread so much and turned out so “lacey” you could see through ’em! I’m going to try softened butter next time (unless you’ve found out why it wouldn’t work) and will also try Stephanie’s idea of freezing (or at least chilling) the dough next time. Other than that, these were wonderful — although I admit I added extra chips (how can one cup possibly be enough??). We now have butterscotch cookies at our house again! Oh yeah . . .!

Oh, these turned out horribly bad :( My dough was just flaky oatmeal and then my cookies spread so thin. I will try this again soon b/c your pictures look DELISH! Btw the chips turned out wonderfully. Those babies will stay in the fridge…if I can keep my hands off!

I tried to make these into Oatmeal Raisin cookies, by substituting raisins for the butterscotch chips. FAIL!! The dough was SO crumbly, and I had to squeeze the dough together to get them to halfway stick together on the pan. They didn’t change shape at all when they baked, and the raisins on the top were burnt. Anyone know what I did wrong???

Making these tonight for a friend who just had a baby–since oatmeal is great for milk supply. I’m subbing in chocolate chips because chocolate is also good for milk supply (or at least that’s how I remember it! lol). Oatmeal chocolate chip cookies were my FAVORITE food when I was starting to nurse my last little one, but I was still using the bags of cookie mix at that time. I was SOOOOOOOO glad to find this recipe so that I can bring food that I feel good about sharing with a sweet growing family. :) Thanks!!!